Glossop
St Mary Crowned, Glossop
Sumner Street (Roman Catholic) The Church was erected in 1882 at a cost of £17,000 on a site donated by Lord Howard. It was paid
31st July 2020
Over the centuries ‘Glossop’ has been used to represent different territory and has had different meanings. Glossop is a valley system with three main components: Longdendale, Glossopdale and the Etherow Gorge. It is also the name of the town and used for the part of the valley system known as Glossopdale.
How Glossop got its name – The derivations for the name of Glossop.
Glossopdale is the valley of Glossop Brook. It is also used to describe the area of the Manor of Glossopdale or Glossop Dale. From the 16th Century, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury often referred to his ‘Manor of Glossopdale’.
The Manor of Glossopdale was made up of ten townships Hadfield, Padfield, Dinting, Simmondley, Whitfield, Chunal, Charlesworth, Chisworth and Ludworth and the village of Glossop (Old Glossop). This area also includes Gamesley (which was part of Charlesworth) and Glossop (Howard Town).
Sumner Street (Roman Catholic) The Church was erected in 1882 at a cost of £17,000 on a site donated by Lord Howard. It was paid
Howard Street (Wesleyan Methodist) The original School and Chapel were erected at a cost of £1,000. The Chapel was opened on 5th November 1854 with
High Street West (Wesleyan Methodist) This is by far the largest Chapel on the Circuit centrally situated, and known to Glossopians of all denominations as
Shrewsbury Street (Primitive Methodist) Prior to the building of Shrewsbury Street Chapel the Primitive Methodists worshipped at Greenvale. The present Chapel was erected and opened
Princess Street (Primitive Methodist) The Princess Street Chapel – the only one on the Circuit not built with stone – was erected in 1893, shortly
Primitive Methodist Chapel Greenvale (High Street West) (Primitive Methodist) Primitive Methodists formed in 1810 built their first Chapel in Glossop at Greenvale near to the
Chapel Street (Methodist) The foundation stone was laid on 26th March 1966 by Rev. W. Walkerlee. The church is built on the site of the
Princess Street / St Mary’s Road (Congregational / Independent) In 1858 , Fourteen people – eight men and six women banded together to form a
Fauvel Road (Church of England) St. Luke’s is a daughter Church of St. James’s, Whitfield. It had a humble missionary beginning in an upper room
Geoffrey Allen Church Centre Winster Mews (Church of England) Bishop Geoffrey Allen was Bishop of Derby when proposals for the building of the Gamesley estate